For what it's worth, here's what Moroney is saying:
"I’m out on vacation right now, and will respond when I get back. But these allegations are completely untrue, and massively distressing to me, and to others."
> But honestly, it freaks me out that Google might someday disable my account.
Then don't wait. There are plenty of alternatives such as Fastmail. You pay a small amount of money but you can talk to a human being if anything goes wrong.
I also don't get why people put all their eggs in one basket. I'm so glad that my email, password manager, YouTube profile etc are not the same account.
It still shows it's a good idea to separate your e-mail from your YouTube or whatever account though.
When I still used Gmail I was always worried something like this would get me locked out of everything. I use YouTube much more now that my e-mail is safely stored elsewhere.
Yes but they don't support the WebAuthn/FIDO2 standard. The Yubikey option they have is less secure because I think it's OTP under the hood, so it doesn't protect against phishing.
1Password does encrypt URLs. It also requires an extra Secret Key [0] in addition to your password. This makes it much, much harder to use the data even if encrypted vaults were stolen.
They also have a development team that's very active. Lastpass had been coasting for years.
It's not a large development team. I moved away from them years ago because support for FIDO keys for example was always "coming soon" and still isn't there. They've been coasting for years and this breach doesn't surprise me at all.
> All providers mess stuff up occasionally. Everyone has a customer support crisis at some point, with someone.
I think this misses the point. With Fastmail, if they mess up, I can still talk to a human. With Gmail there is no customer support to begin with so you're screwed whenever something goes wrong.
I migrated the important stuff and then just incrementally moved things over whenever I happened to login somewhere. At this point, the only emails I get on Gmail are random crap I don't care about.
It's so nice to have my Gmail only for Android and other Google services. It was a big relief.
"I’m out on vacation right now, and will respond when I get back. But these allegations are completely untrue, and massively distressing to me, and to others."
https://twitter.com/lmoroney/status/1702695501542597080
How convenient he's on vacation right now. Why didn't he respond sooner if it's all untrue?
(Also why am I not surprised to see this guy paid for a blue check...)